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548<br />

THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.<br />

"cannot be recalled; and they shall become as<br />

"was Adam when he was first created, and as he<br />

"was before he had transgressed by eating of the<br />

"tree. Children of the light and spiritual beings<br />

"shall they become, for their flesh shall have been<br />

"swallowed up in the spirit of life, and the folly<br />

"of darkness shall have been renewed into know-<br />

"ledge, in the light of intelligence and understanding.<br />

After the re- "There shall be neither male, nor female, nor<br />

meTsh^rbe "I'ig'hteous, nor sinners, but all those who shall<br />

perfect.<br />

"becomc pcrfect shall be the children of light, and<br />

"they shall be like the angels of God Almighty,<br />

"for they shall be the children of the light and<br />

"spiritual beings. As the root of a grain of wheat,<br />

"or of a grain of barley, which, having been sown<br />

"on good ground and died, germinateth, and by<br />

"the dew of God Almighty groweth up and pro-<br />

"duceth ears and grains of corn wherein is no<br />

The grain of "blemish, even so shall soul and body be raised<br />

"up perfect and without diminution or corruption,<br />

"like our father Adam when he was first created<br />

"and before he sinned, now his body was ruddy<br />

"like a bunch of roses, and his soul was pure even<br />

"more than his body; and as the potter reneweth<br />

"his clay even so will God Almighty renew Adam<br />

"and all his children. If a man hath not made his<br />

"deeds acceptable unto God, nor hath kept His<br />

"commandments, [p. 349] He will destroy him with<br />

"death, but even then, if He wisheth, He will<br />

"make him new again in life.<br />

"And at the third blast of the trumpet all men

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